Ahmed is a young Bahraini. Like most Bahrainis, he is naive. On May 7, 2004, Ahmed was
arrested on drug-related charges. He has been imprisoned at the CID headquarters since
then. Ahmed is being treated as a criminal. He is being discriminated against. Ahmed is
being threathened and all his confessions have been extracted under duress. He is not
alone.

There are 64 people held in custody, some of whom have been there for nine months... All
of them have gone on a peaceful hunger strike. All they want is JUSTICE. All they are
seeking is to be put on trial immediately or released on bail until their trial
dates.Since May, Ahmed has lost his job. He did not see his baby daughter who was born
after his wife went into premature labour because of the stress.

Ahmed was picked up from outside his home at 10pm. He did not have a chance to tell his
wife what was happening to him. The first his family knew of his whereabouts was three
days later. In effect, Ahmed was kidnapped by the authorities. Ahmed has suffered the pain
and indignity in silence. In Ahmed's agony is Bahrain's shame. Is anyone listening?

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But SBG has said more and done more than you've shown. She put her hat in the ring and stands to lose a lot.

Abdulemam's arrest puts a lot of us who express our views in compromising positions. When we put our reputations and sometimes our lives on the line so you can have a distraction at the office, the last thing I expect to hear is one of our own being jeered for assessing the price of that risk.

If anything SBG has just shown you exactly what freedom in the Middle East really is: the freedom to be servile to controlling interests and the perfunctory flag saluting personality cults that dominate regional politics and economies.

If you really think we're being cowards about the situation, say so and state what you would rather we do. Don't sit up in the Peanut Gallery and call us names.

What Would Mahmood Do? He'd find your IP address and publicize it for everyone to know, for lack of anything else to shame you with.

Thanks for coming to my rescue DIB. I am in a catch 22 situation. Ahmed's suffering is increasing by the day. He next appears in court next month. I just spoke to him on the phone. It is so demeaning. His sister went to see him. She put the phone on speaker and I had to speak to him...He was in a cage...with..I don't know what the word is for it in English...mesh wire...you know like bird cages...His sister held the phone on one side and he spoke through the other side.You know, for someone who hasn't yet been put on trial, not to be able to touch or hug or come into any human contact with anyone. Yes..I am a silly chicken. I shouldn't hide behind an anonymous name and rant to a PC. But I have exhausted every avenue. Ahmed is adamant that he is being targetted. For what ? I don't know.